Riddled with Deceit: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery

TV Movie
2020
TV-PG
1h 24m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

1.1K

YOUR RATING

Sarah Lind and Jesse Metcalfe in Riddled with Deceit: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2020)

Cozy Mystery Crime Drama Mystery

Former detective Jeff Jackson teams up with Dr. Zee Madieras to track down their friend's missing emerald brooch, a thief, and also - a murderer.Former detective Jeff Jackson teams up with Dr. Zee Madieras to track down their friend's missing emerald brooch, a thief, and also - a murderer.Former detective Jeff Jackson teams up with Dr. Zee Madieras to track down their friend's missing emerald brooch, a thief, and also - a murderer.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

1.1K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Jeff's complete name is said to be "thrice Presidential": Jefferson Washington Jackson.

Goofs
In a common TV movie mistake, the doctor says the victims were incapacitated by a stun gun. Stun guns do not knock out people, they are a pain compliance weapon used to keep an attacker away from you. Holding a stun gun against someone for 3-5 seconds would result in a loss of balance and disorientation but not loss of consciousness. This error is repeated when a girl is knocked out after a less than one second use of the stun gun.

Connections
Follows A Beautiful Place to Die: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2020)

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Review

Featured review

6/10

Decent whodunit, so so romance

I feel pretty much like I did after the first movie in this series.

Police procedures seem pretty lax especially with Jeff running around entering private property, questioning and chasing suspects and other things police are authorized to do. But he's not officially on the force and he doesn't announce that he is authorized by the police. And he takes Zee with him half the time, but at least she's the coroner.

The whodunit keeps the viewers on their toes. Like the first movie, the pool of suspects gets fairly large and there are some good red herrings. I thought I knew who the bad guy was until he was the first one dead. There were some interesting twists toward the end, especially about the broach.

Jeff and Zee are into flirt mode, but I'm still not impressed with the chemistry. Each one almost comes straight out and says to the other with little preamble "tell me your most personal secrets". That's one of the problems when there is a lot going on in a two hour TV movie - there's not a lot of time for being subtle in the relationships.